Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 1

2010-08-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 02:16, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 09:41:32AM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: Wifi disappearing after switching back and forth from sugar to gnome. I've not tried to track down the original problem report that you are referring to,

Re: Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-09 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 09.08.2010, at 01:21, John Gilmore wrote: As long as activities are saving and restoring properly it could be made pretty much transparent to the user. Of course that's easier said then done... Android has a whole mechanism for this:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-09 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 9 August 2010 11:25, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 09.08.2010, at 01:21, John Gilmore wrote: As long as activities are saving and restoring properly it could be  made pretty much transparent to the user. Of course that's easier  said then done... Android has a whole

Re: Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-09 Thread NoiseEHC
Sugar has a similar mechanism. From the Low-level Activity API docs: org.laptop.Activity.SetActive(b: active) Activate or passivate an activity. This is sent when switching activities, there is only one active activity at a time, all others are passive. A passive activity must immediately

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-09 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 9 August 2010 14:44, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: Sugar has a similar mechanism. From the Low-level Activity API docs: org.laptop.Activity.SetActive(b: active) Activate or passivate an activity. This is sent when switching activities, there is only one active activity at a time,

Re: cairo has now 16bit surfaces (was Fwd: rendering-cleanup)

2010-08-09 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 12:14 -0400, Bernie Innocenti escribió: El Sat, 07-08-2010 a las 11:25 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: I'd expect well-written code to call cairo_surface_create_similar() whenever possible, but there might be hot-spots in our software stack that assume 32bpp.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

2010-08-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 15:47, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 August 2010 14:44, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: Sugar has a similar mechanism. From the Low-level Activity API docs: org.laptop.Activity.SetActive(b: active) Activate or passivate an activity. This is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Neil Graham l...@screamingduck.com wrote: Perhaps what is needed is a KDE to olpc's gnome in order to lift the game of both. We do a ton of things in relationship with our 'community' (or perhaps our different 'communities'). For example, we engage in this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable (was: Re: OLPC 10.1.2 Release Candidate 1)

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: I know I'm repeating myself here but I find the attitude expressed in these instructions and particularly point 3 troublesome and a continued source of frustration for me as well as other people I've

Re: [Server-devel] Plans for a new xs release?

2010-08-09 Thread Abhishek Singh
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: Martin, I was wondering if there are any plans to rebase the schoolserver onto a more recent version of Fedora. We seem to have stability and performance issues with ejabberd bundled with the XS 0.5. Probably also

ip route in rc.sysinit

2010-08-09 Thread Esteban Bordon
Hi all, I have a script that execute ip route to get the default gateway. If I run the script when sugar has started works fine, but, I need to run it during boot. I added a line in rc.sysinit calling it, but ip route doesn't prints any data. I tried to add the line in /etc/rc (like I used to in

Re: [Dextrose] ip route in rc.sysinit

2010-08-09 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Mon, 09-08-2010 a las 16:33 -0300, Esteban Bordon escribió: Hi all, I have a script that execute ip route to get the default gateway. If I run the script when sugar has started works fine, but, I need to run it during boot. I added a line in rc.sysinit calling it, but ip route doesn't

Re: [Dextrose] ip route in rc.sysinit

2010-08-09 Thread Esteban Bordon
If I call the script in rc.local (after NetworkManager starts), could I force to activate NetworkManager? Esteban Bordón Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal CITS - Av. Italia 6201 - Montevideo, Uruguay 2010/8/9 Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org El Mon, 09-08-2010 a las 16:33 -0300,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable

2010-08-09 Thread Neil Graham
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:05 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: We do a ton of things in relationship with our 'community' (or perhaps our different 'communities'). For example, we engage in this thread with you. And yet, Developers on this list [olpc-devel] have complained when people have done

Re: [Sugar-devel] Making OLPC / Sugar Labs more approachable

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Neil Graham l...@screamingduck.com wrote: And yet, Developers on this list [olpc-devel] have complained when people have done that, because this is not the place for it.  Of course, there isn't any other place for it. Don't take every complaint seriously ;-) I

Re: ip route in rc.sysinit

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Esteban Bordon ebor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: I have a script that execute ip route to get the default gateway. If I run the script when sugar has started works fine, but, I need to run it during boot. Our initramfs does some network setup (w/o NM) and then

Re: [Dextrose] ip route in rc.sysinit

2010-08-09 Thread Jon Nettleton
El Mon, 09-08-2010 a las 16:33 -0300, Esteban Bordon escribió: Hi all, I have a script that execute ip route to get the default gateway. If I run the script when sugar has started works fine, but, I need to run it during boot. I added a line in rc.sysinit calling it, but ip route

[Server-devel] Plans for a new xs release?

2010-08-09 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Martin, I was wondering if there are any plans to rebase the schoolserver onto a more recent version of Fedora. We seem to have stability and performance issues with ejabberd bundled with the XS 0.5. Probably also on 0.6, since it's also based on Fedora 9. I've also been running ejabberd on